Lancashire Life Reader photos - Sheep

With Chinese New Year just around the corner, we’ve complied a selection of photos from both our readers and photographers alike, to showcase the sheep!

Looking at me by Norman Pascoe (Image: Archant)

Spring by Norman Pascoe (Image: Archant)

Crossing over by Norman Pascoe (Image: Archant)

Latterbarrow Lambs by Carolyn Parkinson (Image: Archant)

The Teeswater is a breed of sheep from Teesdale, Co. Durham. It is a longwool breed of sheep, which produces the finest of lustre fleece with a fibre diameter of 32 - 36 microns. John Cocks (Image: Archant)

Reflections by Norman Pascoe (Image: Archant)

Three Wise Sheep by Alexander Lambrianou (Image: Archant)

A near thing by Norman Pascoe (Image: Archant)

We're cold and hungry! by Michael Fotios (Image: Archant)

WESTMORLAND SHOW 2014 - Brian Knowles from Selside, Kendal, showing off his best in class Rough Fell Gimmer Shearling (Image: Archant)

Curious by KAREN TICKLE (Image: Archant)

2014 Holker Garden Festival Bob Hogg's Lamb National John Cocks (Image: Archant)

Lambs near Castlerigg by margaret Pilkington (Image: Archant)

Flock stars

• The sheep is among the animals that Chinese people like most. It is gentle and calm. Since ancient times, people have learned to use its fleece to make writing brushes and skin to keep warm.

• People under the sign of the sheep are tender, polite, filial, clever, and kind-hearted. They have special sensitivity to art and beauty, faith in a certain religion and a special fondness for quiet living. They are wise, gentle and compassionate and can cope with business cautiously and circumspectly.

• But Sheep year people are often worriers who are shy, pessimistic, moody, indecisive, over-sensitive, weak-willed and puzzled about life.